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Kåñëa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Introduction
Çréla Baladeva Vidyäbhüñaëa’s object in compiling an
expanded translation of Çré Viñëusahasranäma was to show
that one can understand every Name of Viñëu also to be a
Name of Çré Kåñëa. According to some Vaiñëavas who are
devotees of Viñëu or Näåäyaëa, Kåñëa is an incarnation of
Viñëu. Indeed this is true, since Kåñëa, in His later pastimes in
Mathurä and Dvärakä acted as the yuga-avatära for the
dväpara-yuga, a function of Viñëu. However, in His youthful
pastimes in Våndävana, Kåñëa also revealed the most
confidential transcendental form, character and pastimes of the
original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of even
Lord Viñëu. This is confirmed in Çrémad Bhägavatam:
ete cäàça-kaläù puàsaù kåñëas tu bhagavän svayam
indräri-vyäkulaà lokaà måòayanti yuge yuge
“All the lists of the incarnations of Godhead submitted
herewith are either plenary expansions or parts of the plenary
expansions of the Supreme Godhead, but Kåñëa is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.” [Çrémad
Bhägavatam 1.3.28]
In the Brahmä-saàhétä it is stated:
éçvaraù paramaù kåñëaù sac-cid-änanda-vigrahaù
anädir ädir govindaù sarva-käraëa-käraëam
“There are many personalities possessing the qualities of
Bhagavän, but Kåñëa is the Supreme because none can excel
Him. He is the Supreme Person, and His body is eternal, full of
knowledge and bliss. He is the primeval Lord Govinda and the
cause of all causes.”
[Brahmä-saàhétä 5.1]
And Kåñëa Himself declares in Bhagavad-gétä:
mattaù parataraà nänyat kiïcid asti dhanaïjaya
mayi sarvam idaà protaà sütre maëi-gaëä iva
“O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no Truth superior to
Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a
thread.” [Bhagavad-gétä 7.7]
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